Albuquerque Museum Exhibitions

Exhibits from the permanent art and history collections, world-class traveling exhibits, and community curated exhibits.

Online Exhibitions

Enjoy a virtual experience by browsing our online exhibitions.

Seven Generations of Red Power in New Mexico

Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb

Gallery Exhibitions

Exhibitions on view in the galleries at the Albuquerque Museum.

Artists from the exhibition in front of Glenn Ligon's America, 2008, courtesy Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Coming in February 2021

Anonymous, Frida and Diego with Fulang Chang, 1937, gelatin silver print, New York, Throckmorton Fine Art (detail)

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Learn more about current and upcoming exhibits.

30 Americans

30 Americans explores how artists shed light on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity.

Past Exhibitions at Albuquerque Museum

A listing of past exhibits at Albuquerque Museum since 1967. Updated 10/22/2020

Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb

Albuquerque Museum presents an online exhibition. Artists’s responses to the first detonation of a nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Trinity explosion.

Selections from Trinity

On view at Albuquerque Museum. A selection of 17 works on paper from the online exhibition Trinity: Reflections on the Bomb.

Nicola López: Haunted

Visiting Artist on view at Albuquerque Museum

Neal Ambrose-Smith, Abstract in Your Home

On view at Albuquerque Museum. A collaborative effort with 516 Arts supporting working artists.

Common Ground: Art in New Mexico

On view at Albuquerque Museum. A bold installation of Albuquerque Museum's permanent art collection emphasizes real New Mexico.

Only in Albuquerque

On view at Albuquerque Museum. Spirited. Courageous. Resourceful. Innovative. See the history of our city.

Let the Sunshine In

On view at Albuquerque Museum. Let the Sunshine In captures life in Albuquerque from 1968-1972 through street photography.

Sculpture Garden

On view at Albuquerque Museum. The sculpture garden includes works by many of the most important sculptors of the American Southwest.

ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit

Albuquerque Museum Foundation's largest fundraiser of the year is held annually at Albuquerque Museum in October

Seven Generations of Red Power in New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum presents a virtual exhibition that showcases a tradition of activism in New Mexico

José Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico

Coming to Albuquerque Museum December 2020. This exhibition recognizes Posada’s cultural contributions, which reflect the spirit of Mexican identity in his time and ours and imparts a universal perspective extending well beyond the borders of his native Mexico

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism

Coming to Albuquerque Museum February 2021

Focus on Youth 2021

Albuquerque Museum and Albuquerque Public Schools exhibition of photography and film is held annually in May.

Eye to I

Coming to Albuquerque Museum in June 2021, Self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery featuring works by Thomas Hart Benton, Fritz Scholder, Chuck Close, Alice Neel, and many more.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style

Coming to Albuquerque Museum in October 2021. A rich vocabulary of sensuous, attenuated, innovative forms that both reflected and shaped contemporaneous trends in design throughout Europe and the United States.

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group

Coming to Albuquerque Museum June 2021. Centered in New Mexico, the Transcendental Painting Group artists transformed the dramatic natural surroundings of the Southwest into luminous reflections of the human spirit.